Motivational Quotes

Change

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

10.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

18.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

19.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

20.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

22.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

24.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

25.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

26.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

27.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

28.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

33.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

35.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

48.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen